Mathematics. 1  a plus sign or minus sign used as a symbol for indicating addition or subtraction. 2  a plus sign or minus sign used as a symbol for indicating the positive or negative value of a quantity, as an integer. 3  multiplication sign. 4  division sign. 5  a symbol, as or !, used to indicate a radical or factorial operation.
The main House reform bill was the Affordable Health Care for America Act, which passed November 7, 2009. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the Senate version, passed December 24. The following table compares the two versions.
The DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT (DOMA) is a Federal law enacted on September 21, 1996 by then President Bill Clinton. The law essentially leaves it up to the States to decide whether to recognize a same-sex marriage performed in another State that permits such actions.